The Strange
Skotonians And The
Vanishing Of The
Wicked
By Forrest
Wayne Schultz
[This is my fortieth short story. It is probably my most unusual one. I guess that is appropriate because forty is
supposed to be some kind of special number.]
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We now
have irrefutable evidence that, incredible as it seems, Skotonian agents are
causing the wicked to vanish from the Earth.
There is nothing strange concerning the Skotonians’ ability to do this –
their computers know almost everything about all inhabitants of the Earth, and
their engineers a long time ago developed very powerful teleportation
devices. What is strange is why the
Skotonians, who are notorious for their evil deeds and whose very name means “darkness”,
would want the wicked to vanish from the Earth
I am one
of the Photonian agents monitoring these Skotonian activities and trying to
interpret their significance. We know
what they are doing but have no idea why they are doing it. One of the members of our team is studying
newly developed demonological and vampirological conceptions by Terrans to see
if this may be a factor. Among these new
ideas are vampires who are good, vampires who wish to be delivered from
vampirism, and demons who wish to end their rebellion and get back into a right
relationship with God. Another idea may
be the desire of the Skotonians to confuse those Christians waiting for the
Rapture of the Church. The motive here
would be to befuddle these people by causing a “rapture” of the wicked instead
of a rapture of the righteous!
The only
thing we do know for sure is that long ago the Skotonians succeeded in their
efforts to give Terrans the idea that the Devil is more interesting than
God. As a result, no systematic
theologies include the fact that God is interesting, and that the Devil is boring. But how this is related to the latest
Skotonian project, we do not know.
But we
are going to keep trying to understand this.
Not just because it is our job, but because this is one of the most
interesting tasks we Photonians agents have ever been given!
September 29, 2014
